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I don't generally do the whole electronic toy thing, but sometimes, you just have to.
I've been recording my voice lessons for years, for two reasons: (1) it's not really possible to hear what one's own voice sounds like while singing (or speaking, for that matter, but that's not important); (2) it's good to remind myself, before I practice, what particular things my teacher talked about, what exercises she recommended, etc., at the most recent lesson.
My teacher has had a succession of cheap tape recorders, all of which have died eventually. Most recently there have been whole passages where the volume dropped to near-inaudibility, which I suspect is actually a problem with either her microphone or the cable from it; and at my lesson a week ago Saturday the recorder just wouldn't run.
Besides which, I was getting tired of dealing with tapes (which wear out eventually), and with waiting while they rewind, and guessing which side the latest lesson starts on, etc.
So I bought this and the second item shown here (the "tie clip" microphone).
It works pretty well. The sound is OK; it doesn't do a very good job with the piano, a notoriously difficult instrument to record accurately, but the quality for voice is adequate, and it's a whole lot more convenient than a tape recorder. And it's smaller (and probably lighter) than a cassette; I was really amazed how tiny it is.
It also functions as a music player, and can be loaded up with music files from (wherever), a feature I'll probably never use.
I've been recording my voice lessons for years, for two reasons: (1) it's not really possible to hear what one's own voice sounds like while singing (or speaking, for that matter, but that's not important); (2) it's good to remind myself, before I practice, what particular things my teacher talked about, what exercises she recommended, etc., at the most recent lesson.
My teacher has had a succession of cheap tape recorders, all of which have died eventually. Most recently there have been whole passages where the volume dropped to near-inaudibility, which I suspect is actually a problem with either her microphone or the cable from it; and at my lesson a week ago Saturday the recorder just wouldn't run.
Besides which, I was getting tired of dealing with tapes (which wear out eventually), and with waiting while they rewind, and guessing which side the latest lesson starts on, etc.
So I bought this and the second item shown here (the "tie clip" microphone).
It works pretty well. The sound is OK; it doesn't do a very good job with the piano, a notoriously difficult instrument to record accurately, but the quality for voice is adequate, and it's a whole lot more convenient than a tape recorder. And it's smaller (and probably lighter) than a cassette; I was really amazed how tiny it is.
It also functions as a music player, and can be loaded up with music files from (wherever), a feature I'll probably never use.
